That path is fine with me too. We're just making a stupid compromise that encourages stupid behavior right now. We should go one direction or the other, I don't care which.
Both sides want someone to do something different, it's just that the anti-Randians, when choosing between asking the slave and the slaveholder to change, choose the slaveholder.
All of our choices are made by the combination of our memes and our genes. I see no reason not to let them choose for themselves their survival strategy. If they choose wrong, someone else will have chosen right. No matter how cheap we make this technology, there will be anti-technologist memes that avoid these choices and get it right for the cataclysm.
Exactly my point. That access is reputation based rather than skill based, and it's not the reputation of the individual seeking the finance that matters.
There are often contractual restrictions on the sale of stock for current employees that do not apply to former employees. These exist because of insider trading rules. So if you leave, you are no longer an insider, and you can trade your stock more freely. This is true at my current company where former employees will be able to sell 6 weeks before current employees. With a stock in freefall like FB, being able to sell 6 weeks before the flood of shares from current employees could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of these people.
I did? My parents weren't able to afford an ivy league school for me, and in spite of perfect grades at a strong HS and activities matching those of any of the scholarship winners, I didn't win the scholarship lottery.
Because doing a high level executive's job well requires a great deal of skill. And, unfortunately, many people assume that those jobs are being done well at companies that succeed.
However, in this analogy he's a dictator with no power to prevent people from fleeing the country. He didn't execute his generals, they abandoned him, and faced no consequences for doing so.
Yahoo is slowly bleeding to death. In the world of the internet, users leave a service and do not come back. This has been the pattern enough times for people to believe it is inevitable now. So Yahoo will last until their number of users no longer makes them an attractive advertising target, or the budget falls below the discount rate on server racks. And then they will be gone for good. When facebook starts to shrink, people are going to begin thinking about it the same way, which will become a self-reinforcing flood of defections to new services. All they've done is set the bar higher in terms of how big people think the next big thing can be.
You make it a nice steady progression up to about 90%. People who are motivated by pure finance can push hard, and they will always get more for doing so. Besides, the people who would pay in at 90% aren't working hard at all. Seriously. Their work lives are easy, I have seen it. Would gladly trade my job for theirs, even for equal pay.
People who are driven to be at that end of the payscale aren't going to have a motivation problem if the tax rates are higher. They just aren't going to have as many yachts or basketball teams.
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Umm, parent and I are both clearly anti-US.
Good god, what is happening to AC? This is like the third time this week AC has slapped down a named account with a frank and accurate comment.
Every TV cop show says that if the suspect makes it onto embassy property they are untouchable! ... my reality is ruined!
The TV lies
Yes, embryo adoption. Many couples have none of their IVF embryos destroyed.
Sorry, I did overestimate. It's more like $800 per inch per year.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/standing.aspx
That path is fine with me too. We're just making a stupid compromise that encourages stupid behavior right now. We should go one direction or the other, I don't care which.
They'll do quite well being able to graze the taller branches, just like the giraffes.
In general they make that choice in a drunken stupor. Choose very carefully. LOL.
Yes, who are you to decide that I'll spend my life to pay off your bad choices. Preserve my human dignity please.
Both sides want someone to do something different, it's just that the anti-Randians, when choosing between asking the slave and the slaveholder to change, choose the slaveholder.
Beautiful men also far out-earn ugly men. An inch of height is worth something like $5000 annually.
Who believes dystopia is fiction? Most of humanity has spent most of human history living in one dystopia or another. Even today that is true.
Why? Lots of people choose non-destructive IVF.
All of our choices are made by the combination of our memes and our genes. I see no reason not to let them choose for themselves their survival strategy. If they choose wrong, someone else will have chosen right. No matter how cheap we make this technology, there will be anti-technologist memes that avoid these choices and get it right for the cataclysm.
No, it's definitely an assignment.
Exactly my point. That access is reputation based rather than skill based, and it's not the reputation of the individual seeking the finance that matters.
There are often contractual restrictions on the sale of stock for current employees that do not apply to former employees. These exist because of insider trading rules. So if you leave, you are no longer an insider, and you can trade your stock more freely. This is true at my current company where former employees will be able to sell 6 weeks before current employees. With a stock in freefall like FB, being able to sell 6 weeks before the flood of shares from current employees could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of these people.
I did? My parents weren't able to afford an ivy league school for me, and in spite of perfect grades at a strong HS and activities matching those of any of the scholarship winners, I didn't win the scholarship lottery.
Because doing a high level executive's job well requires a great deal of skill. And, unfortunately, many people assume that those jobs are being done well at companies that succeed.
However, in this analogy he's a dictator with no power to prevent people from fleeing the country. He didn't execute his generals, they abandoned him, and faced no consequences for doing so.
Yahoo is slowly bleeding to death. In the world of the internet, users leave a service and do not come back. This has been the pattern enough times for people to believe it is inevitable now. So Yahoo will last until their number of users no longer makes them an attractive advertising target, or the budget falls below the discount rate on server racks. And then they will be gone for good. When facebook starts to shrink, people are going to begin thinking about it the same way, which will become a self-reinforcing flood of defections to new services. All they've done is set the bar higher in terms of how big people think the next big thing can be.
If you can chose not to be a slave, you aren't really a slave. Slavery means the out choice is death.
You make it a nice steady progression up to about 90%. People who are motivated by pure finance can push hard, and they will always get more for doing so. Besides, the people who would pay in at 90% aren't working hard at all. Seriously. Their work lives are easy, I have seen it. Would gladly trade my job for theirs, even for equal pay.
People who are driven to be at that end of the payscale aren't going to have a motivation problem if the tax rates are higher. They just aren't going to have as many yachts or basketball teams.
Nevertheless, the historical evidence says you're wrong, and that things were better under higher taxation.
If such a program makes money for Google, there is an insurance actuary somewhere getting his ass fired.